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Garret of Dangerousmeta sent me a link to the Carnegie Endowment’s Crisis in Iraq site. It has an absurd amount of information and analysis on the situation in Iraq, and is well worth perusing.

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Salon has put together some worst case scenarios for what might happen due to the actions of the Bush administration. It’s a fun thought experiment, but useful only in that it serves as more propaganda for illustrating just how badly Bush and his minions/handlers are screwing everything up. I found reproductive rights to be [...]

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Tunisian Internet activist Zouhair Yahyaoui is currently on hunger strike in prison, and it is reported that he is in extremely ill health. Sometimes it amazes me that we live in a world where some people can say or write whatever they choose without fear of persecution and others can simply disappear for doing the [...]

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I’ve been thinking a lot this week about our upcoming war with Iraq, and what disturbs me about it. As I’ve written before, I understand that war with Iraq may be necessary or even inevitable at some point in time, and that really there’s no way we should allow Iraq to become a nuclear power. [...]

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Robert Young Pelton has been released by his Colombian captors.

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I just read about OLED displays. I’m kind of hoping that a year from now OLED will make me glad I never bought an LCD for myself.

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I just read Joel’s piece, Mouth Wide Shut, on whether it’s a good idea to pre-announce software you’re working on. His policy is to announce nothing in advance, in order to keep things simple, avoid wasted publicity for stuff you can’t buy, keep competitors in the dark, and prevent the embarrassment of making promises you [...]

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I installed the latest release build of Syndirella at home, and it’s working fine. I also just downloaded the latest daily build and put it on the computer where the latest release wasn’t working, and it works, too. I haven’t used NetNewsWire, so I can’t compare Syndirella to the gold standard of RSS [...]

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Hilary Rosen has stepped down as chairman and CEO of RIAA. I’d like to think it’s because of her wrongheaded obsession with getting rid of file sharing, but it’s probably just because the recording industry has been really suffering financially. I have to believe that one big reason their business is doing so poorly is [...]

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This is good news.

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